"Tottenham fans have grown disillusioned with the interminable saga of their delayed move to their new palace at White Hart Lane but as their resentment simmered, their manager and their team soared above all the frustration as effortlessly and as gracefully as if they had wings," says Oliver Holt in the Daily Mail .

"Tottenham have lost already to Manchester City and Liverpool at Wembley this season, and if the third of the clubs that sat above them on Saturday morning had come away with a victory, too, there would have been a sense that Spurs were on the verge of being cut adrift from the title race.

"Players like excuses as much as any of us and it would have been easy for the Spurs team to take refuge in the stadium fiasco and the sense of uncertainty into which it has plunged the club. It is to their credit that they have ignored it and forged on regardless.

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"Instead, Mauricio Pochettino's team produced a performance of such beauty and irresistibility that by the time the match was over, it was they and not Chelsea who were being bracketed with City and Liverpool as this season's big three. Their 3-1 victory moved them above Chelsea into third and took them to within three points of Liverpool in second.

"Spurs were a blur of movement and Chelsea simply could not cope. By the time Spurs had finished with them, they had been so utterly outclassed that it was hard to see how they had remained unbeaten this long. Maybe because they hadn't come up against anybody playing as this Tottenham team played."

Dele Alli celebrates scoring with Christian Eriksen

The Guardian

"It was impossible to give any Chelsea player more than five out of 10 – apart from Eden Hazard, perhaps – and their woes were summed up when David Luiz hared into a challenge on Son Heung-min before Spurs’s third goal and kept on haring," writes David Hytner in The Guardian . "He got nowhere near the ball and was last seen heading towards Wembley Park tube station. Son could not believe his luck and he finished inside the far post.

"Son was excellent but so were all of Spurs’s attacking players. Dele Alli’s early header got things started while Harry Kane added the second, albeit with the aid of a curious piece of ball escapology from David Luiz and a goalkeeping aberration from Kepa Arrizabalaga. Christian Eriksen probed with characteristic menace.

"By the end, Tottenham were showboating – witness the substitute Érik Lamela sashaying away from Hazard – and, crazy as it sounds, they could be disappointed that they did not score seven or eight; Arrizabalaga made a few smart saves.

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"That was to split hairs. This was as good a performance as anything from the Mauricio Pochettino era and it was shaped by the manager’s tactical plan. Whereas Sarri is wedded to 4-3-3, Pochettino sprang a surprise with a 4-3-1-2 system, in which Alli played behind the strikers, Son and Kane. Sarri admitted that he had been taken aback by the move."

The Independent

"Remember the old Tottenham Hotspur? The Spurs that finished second and third in the Premier League, that ripped opponents - good opponents - to shreds with their relentless pressing from the front," says Jack Pitt-Brooke in The Independent . "The Spurs that wiped Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid off the pitch when they came to town. The Spurs where Harry Kane would score from nowhere, and Dele Alli would ghost in before defenders could even see him.

Juan Foyth challenges Eden Hazard

"Tottenham this season have not been bad. They started today’s game in fifth place. But they have not been like that. They have been grinding out results, winning ugly, and scraping past lesser teams. The focus has been more on the stadium delays and debt, and the lack of signings, than on the football itself.

"But not today. This was Spurs’ best performance of the season by a distance, their best since they beat Real Madrid 3-1 here more than one year ago. And that scoreline, emphatic enough in itself, does absolutely nothing to convey the extent of Spurs’ dominance here at Wembley.

"Had Tottenham scored six or seven it would have been a more accurate reflection of how the game went. They looked like scoring with every attack, Kane, Alli and Heung-Min Son slicing through a Chelsea defence that looked utterly unprepared for the challenge of today’s game. There will be plenty of questions about Maurizio Sarri’s side, their tactics, their personnel. But this afternoon should be all about Mauricio Pochettino and his players.

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"Because just when it felt as if this season might drift away from Spurs, likely out of the Champions League, still without a stadium, miles off the pace of Manchester City, they now have one of those unforgettable games they can all rally around. Play like this against Inter Milan on Wednesday night, or Arsenal on Sunday, and suddenly everything will feel possible again. Especially with their most important man back to his best."

The Telegraph

"The Spurs manager was not prepared to entertain discussion of his team’s effective nullifying of Chelsea’s best parts, including the close attention given by Dele to Jorginho, the little Brazilian playmaker whose space was blocked and confined everywhere he went, writes The Telegraph's Sam Wallace. "The high point was unquestionably Son’s goal, Spurs’ third, where he went past Jorginho and then Luiz, who bought the deceit in the attacker’s feint without much persuading.

"Luiz also seemed to get out the way of the shot for Kane’s goal, in the manner of a line judge evading the big ace and Sarri charitably suggested that his defender was trying to avoid putting a deflection on it. When it goes badly for Luiz it does so in spectacular fashion but at least he could say he did not hide away from the chasing Chelsea were given. He and Antonio Rudiger suffered at times but they might also point to the lack of traction gained by Willian and Alvaro Morata in attack.

"In the final minutes, Chelsea had to endure the indignity of Erik Lamela introducing some late entertainment, brushing his foot over the ball, dropping a shoulder, and generally taking whatever liberties he could. The away side should have had a penalty between the first two Spurs goals when the young Argentine defender Juan Foyth crashed into Eden Hazard in the area and although he escaped, Sarri was reluctant to say that it would have changed the course of the game.

"Pochettino did it while resting Jan Vertonghen, presumably with Wednesday’s Champions League group game against Inter Milan at Wembley in mind, which Spurs must win. Dele’s goal was his sixth goal against Chelsea in six games. This winning run of Spurs now stretches five games, back to that defeat to Manchester City at Wembley on Oct 29 and it has given them momentum to take into Wednesday and then the derby against Arsenal next Sunday."